Suspect in Brockton hit-and-run was unlicensed

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May 16, 2014 at 3:10 AMMay 16, 2014 at 10:36 AM

The 38-year-old woman charged with hitting three children with her car on Thursday morning has never had a Massachusetts driver's license. Relatives say she has a history of mental illness and drug abuse.

Staff Reporter

BROCKTON – For eight years, Yainira Boria has had 11 traffic violations, failed to pay a citation violation and has had suspensions that followed drug convictions from 2005 and 2006. As a result, she had her right to operate a car suspended indefinitely. Yet she has never been issued a Massachusetts license.

But those troubles are perhaps the least of her concerns after Boria, 38, who relatives say has had a history of mental illness and substance abuse, faces charges in a hit-and-run crash that injured three young students on Thursday.

Her mother, Lydia Cirino, said she was crushed.

“My daughter is not well. She has mental problems,” she said.

“She does things normal people don’t do. She doesn’t have a stable mind. They need to help her. She’s a helping person, but she has problems.

“I feel bad for those kids.”

Police said Boria, of Brockton, struck three kids about 8 a.m. Thursday.

“They are the ones I really feel bad for,” Boria’s son Wilfredo Riveira, 22, said about the students when reached at his home on Nye Square in Brockton.

“(Expletive) my mother. I feel bad for the kids. She humiliated them and almost killed them.”

For most of his life, he said, his mother had not been there because she had been “in and out of lockup” for years.

“My wife refuses to have my mother around my child and this makes it a better prevention,” he said.

Registry of Motor Vehicles records indicate that Boria has never held a Massachusetts driver’s license but has 11 violations on her driving record, showing that her right to operate was suspended indefinitely for a combination of reasons – failure to pay a citation violation and suspensions that followed drug convictions from 2005 and 2006.

Several hours after the accident, Boria was arraigned in Brockton District Court, where she pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges in the incident.

After an initial evaluation of Boria, Ann Marie Murray, a court-appointed psychiatrist, detailed Boria’s history of substance abuse and mental illness to Judge Ronald Moynahan.

Boria’s mother reported that her daughter has had several childhood diseases that may have led to cognitive and psychiatric complications, Murray said. Boria has also been briefly hospitalized after she cut herself while incarcerated at MCI-Framingham, she said.

She had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but Cirino said it has been several days since Boria last took any medication, Murray said.

Cirino also told Murray that her daughter had been showing symptoms of paranoia and hallucinations and reported hearing voices “commanding her to kill herself and other people,” Murray reported.

During her initial interview with Boria, Murray said she sobbed uncontrollably and wasn’t able to answer certain questions accurately.

About a month ago, she almost died when she overdosed and admitted to Murray that she had used crack as recently as Wednesday, Murray added.

John Pavlos, who represented Boria during Thursday’s proceedings, said his client was in no shape to participate in the hearing.

“After meeting with my client initially, it became quite clear that I was not able to have the assistance of my client in responding to questions,” he said.

Boria’s Facebook profile page shows recent as well as older posts making references to getting high, drinking and being incarcerated. She is currently unemployed, and Riveira said she had consistently refused help.

Her son said he is fed up.

“I don’t really care what happens,” he said. “I’m at that point I’m about to just (expletive) her and disown her and move on.”

Dafney Tales may be reached at dtales@enterprisenews.com.

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